Gossip, markets, and gender
Subtitle: how dialogue constructs moral value in post-socialist Kilimanjaro
By: Tuulikki Pietilä.
Series: Women in Africa and the diaspora
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780299220907; 9780299220945
Subjects: Markets -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region; Markets -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region; Markets -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region; Gossip -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Domesticating the market, marketing the domestic; title: Feeding, drinking, and eating : market women restructuring gender; title: Constructing moral reputation : the case of Mama Njau; title: From captured wives to bound men : rethinking female respect; title: Urban men in their home lineages; title: Making sense of failure : stories of businessmen and wealth.